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Open Letter to Jon Bon Jovi: Don’t Play Apartheid Israel
http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1442 It is with great disappointment that the undersigned organizations learned of your scheduled performance in Israel set for 2011 as part of your “Circle Tour” [1]. Given that Israel is involved in grave violations of international law and human rights, particularly as indicated in the UN Goldstone Report, we urge you to cancel this gig […]
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PACBI: The Challenge for 2011: Start implementing the academic boycott of Israel
http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1438 If 2010 witnessed an exceptional growth of the global BDS movement, especially in the cultural and consumer products fields, one of the main challenges facing the movement in 2011 will be to start putting into effect concrete boycott measures against Israeli universities and to further spread the artists” boycott of Israel. With world renowned […]
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New PACBI Newsletter: Risala December 2010
PACBI, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, recently released its December 2010 newsletter, with many informative updates and articles. It is available here: http://www.pacbi.org/newsletter/december2010.php The newsletter includes important editorials from PACBI on academic boycott in 2011 and from the BDS National Committee on the second anniversary of the war on Gaza. […]
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Stuttgart Declaration: Closing Document of Palestine Solidarity Conference
Stuttgart Declaration Closing Document of the Palestine solidarity conference “Separated in the past – together in the future”. Stuttgart, 26-28 November 2010 Equality – or nothing (Edward W. Said) From 26-28 November 2010, over 200 participants came together for a “Palestine Solidarity Conference”. The theme of this three-day conference, with the title Separated in the […]
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Tell Felix Da Housecat: Don’t Play Apartheid Israel!
We have learned that American artist, Felix Da Housecat, is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv on December 12th, 2010. We have sent a letter asking him to join the BDS movement but we need your help in getting the word to him, since his performance is scheduled in only a week. Please help us […]
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USACBI on Professor Lisa Taraki’s US Visit
The U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel [USACBI] is proud to host Professor Lisa Taraki during her tour of the United States. In addition to her academic work as a sociologist at Birzeit University in Palestine on aspects of Palestinian society, politics and urban social history, she has been an activist […]
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Alvin Ailey: Don’t Dance Around Israeli Apartheid
PACBI | 9 October 2010 While human beings are being willfully denied not just their rights but their needs for their children and grandparents and themselves, I feel deeply that I should not be sending even tacit signals that [performing in Israel] is either ‘normal’ or ‘ok’. It’s neither and I cannot support it. It […]
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OECD chief warns: Jerusalem conference could be canceled
World economic body chief criticizes tourism minister for claiming that holding a conference in Jerusalem demonstrates its support for Israel’s sovereignty there. By Barak Ravid and Irit Rosenblum Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), sent a harsh letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning that due to comments made […]
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Towards accountability: John Dugard interviewed
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 5 October 2010 Last month, Professor John Dugard, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, chaired a meeting on universal Jurisdiction in the Hague. The Electronic Intifada contributor Adri Nieuwhof interviewed Dugard about means of bringing Israel to account for its human rights violations, particularly […]
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Propaganda and Israel/Palestine: The War is On
Poor CAMERA…so victimized, so lonely. Tell the President and Provost of Boston University you are alarmed that they are welcoming a group of apologists for Israeli war crimes!
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